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title: Hashing - Guide - Apache DataFu Pig
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## Hashing

### MD5

The [MD5 hash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5) of a string can be computed with the
[MD5](https://datafu.apache.org/docs/datafu/<%= current_page.data.version %>/datafu/pig/hash/MD5.html)
UDF.

For example:

```pig
define MD5 datafu.pig.hash.MD5();

--input: "hello, world!"
data_in = LOAD 'input' as (val:chararray);
data_out = FOREACH data_in GENERATE MD5(val) as val;

-- produces: (fc3ff98e8c6a0d3087d515c0473f8677)
DUMP data_out;
```

The function can instead output base64 by passing 'base64' to the constructor.
The default is 'hex' for hexadecimal.

```pig
define MD5 datafu.pig.hash.MD5('base64');
```

### SHA

A [SHA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Hash_Algorithm) hash can be computed with
[SHA](https://datafu.apache.org/docs/datafu/<%= current_page.data.version %>/datafu/pig/hash/SHA.html).
The output will be in hexadecimal.

```pig
define SHA datafu.pig.hash.SHA();

--input: "hello, world!"
data_in = LOAD 'input' as (val:chararray);
data_out = FOREACH data_in GENERATE SHA(val) as val;

-- produces: (7509e5bda0c762d2bac7f90d758b5b2263fa01ccbc542ab5e3df163be08e6ca9)
DUMP data_out;
```

By default this uses SHA-256.
The constructor also takes an optional parameter for the particular SHA algorithm to use.
To use SHA-512 instead:

```pig
define SHA512 datafu.pig.hash.SHA('512');
```